Pennsylvania HB 265: An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for career information and recruitment; in terms and courses of study, further providing for Commission for Agricultural Education Excellence; in vocational education, further providing for advisory committees, providing for a workforce development program clearinghouse and for PAsmart online career resource center, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants and providing for utilization of credits; establishing the Schools-to-Work Program and providing for powers and duties of the Department of Labor and Industry; providing for classification of program code; in transfers of credits between institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions, for duties of public institutions of higher education and State-related institutions, for Transfer and Articulation Oversight Committee and for duties of department; replacing references to "vocational-technical" with "career and technical," replacing references to "vocational" with "career and technical" and replacing references to "vocation" with "career and technical"; deleting references to vocational school districts; and renaming the State Board for Vocational Education as the State Board of Career and Technical Education.

Status: Approved by the Governor (as of 2019-10-30)

State: Pennsylvania · Session: 2019-2020 · Bill: HB 265

Sponsors: Staats, Barrar, Boback, Brown, Carroll, D. Miller, Deasy, Farry, Fee, Gabler, Gleim, Hill-Evans, Irvin, James, Jozwiak, Kauffman, Kenyatta, Kortz, Mizgorski, Moul, Mullery, Murt, Neilson, Oberlander, Pashinski

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